Roger S. Pulwarty, director of the National Integrated Drought Information System, testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in April 2013 about the effects of drought on energy and water management.

The Natural Resources Defense Council has created a web-based tool to display crop insurance payouts due to extreme weather by state and country, using 2012 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency.

The Dust Bowl, the drought of the 1930s in the Great Plains of the United States, is perhaps one of the best-known and best-documented droughts in U.S. history. It altered the course of history and eventually prompted revisions of land management practices and agricultural policy, including the formation of what was then the Soil Conservation Service, now the Natural Resources Conservation Service. This link goes to a history of the Dust Bowl on the NDMC's website.